薯
shǔ HSK6

yam

薯 shǔ
potato noun
the edible starchy tuber of the potato plant

这种薯的表皮是黄色的，吃起来口感很面。

zhè zhǒng shǔ de biǎo​pí shì huáng​sè de, chī qi​lai kǒu​gǎn hěn miàn.

The skin of this tuber is yellow, and it has a starchy texture.

yam noun
any of various starchy tuberous roots, such as the yam or sweet potato

这里的薯类作物种类繁多，营养也非常丰富。

zhè​lǐ de shǔ lèi zuò​wù zhǒng​lèi fán​duō, yíng​yǎng yě fēi​cháng fēng​fù.

There is a wide variety of tuber crops here, and they are very nutritious.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,363rd most common 6.22 per million
Movie subtitles
2,097th most common 16.5 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.26 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
10.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+85AF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)